Autumn Pumpkin Pendant by Lisa Haney

Using the green clay and the Makin’s Clay® Fruit Mold, mold a small grape leaf. A pumpkin leaf looks similar to a grape leaf. Use the pointed stylus from the Makin’s Clay Mixing Ruler™ set to draw extra veins into the entire leaf. Set aside so the extra texture drawn on the leaf will have time to set.

Measure the adobe brown clay in the E mixing well of the mixing

ruler.

Form the clay into a stem for the pumpkin. Draw lines along the stem using the pointed stylus. Slightly bend the tip of the stem. Set aside so the extra texture drawn on the stem will have time to set.

Measure the yellow clay in the H mixing well and the red clay in the E mixing well of the mixing Mix the two colors together to make orange.

ruler.

Roll the clay into a ball which now becomes a pumpkin. Using the bigger ball stylus from the ruler set, push an indentation into the top of the pumpkin.

Drag the pointed stylus from the middle of the bottom of the pumpkin all the way to the top and over the indentation. Move over and repeat until lines have been drawn all the way around the pumpkin dividing it into sections.

Draw smaller lines and poke a few holes between the larger sections of the pumpkin. This will add

extra texture to the pumpkin and will show when the pumpkin is antiqued.

Apply Beacon™ Tacky Glue into the indentation on top of the pumpkin and then add the stem.

Bend the stem of the eye pin back and forth with the pliers. This will keep the eye pin from pulling out of the pumpkin after it cures. Apply tacky glue to the stem of the pin. Hold the eye pin with the pliers and insert by pushing it into the pumpkin stem.

With the Makin’s® Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder®, extrude green vines using Makin’s® Professional® Ultimate Clay Extruder® Disc #6. The vines only need to be about 1” or so long. Curl around the end of the stylus. Set aside.

Glue the leaf and a couple of the vine tendrils coming from under the leaf to the pumpkin. Allow pumpkin to dry.

To antique the pumpkin, put on rubber gloves and paint the burnt umber oil paint over the entire pumpkin. Immediately rub off with a paper towel. Let dry.

Add a jump ring and a chain and enjoy wearing your Autumn Pumpkin Pendant necklace!